Alli DeJong
@allidejong.bsky.social
climate, adaptation, decision analysis, flood risk, insurance, resilience, BCAs. planning & policy jack of all trades at the Water Institute. (personal account) also sports, birds, हिंदी, cities, etc. chicago via new orleans via chicago
And… are we ready to talk about the path to victory going through GRAND RAPIDS???
Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 2h ago@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.
we don’t know anything until the full results are reported. everything else is a mirage
McCook is 95% full and we have a lot more rain on the way, so expect overflows today. Not great!
Haley, is there no one in your life who has told you to stop doing this? To stop being like this?
@thejrocktv.bsky.social · 6d agoShe knows she’s losing so she said let’s just go mask off.
I’m talking about not covering every square inch in asphalt and strip malls until you can’t remember what happens when you stand in a meadow at dusk. What happens in a meadow at dusk? Everything. Nothing. Everything. Nothing.
The door chime at North Buena Deli sounds exactly like the shrine alert chime in Zelda Breath of the Wild. Surely everyone is saying this all the time.
Ahh this is so cool!! One of the plovers Ryan found was born at Leelanau State Park where I have been seeing these special birds since I was a little kid—they were gone for many years of high water but now they are back again and nesting successfully
Jer Thorp@jerthorp.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is such a cool story from @ryanfm.bsky.social about stumbling upon (paddling upon?) one of North America's rarest birds. It's a good reminder that there's more to birding than just going to the hotspots. ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/these-plov...
OK a T-mobile outage on top of the wifi going in and out with these storms is just the cherry on top, man. I left Louisiana but sometimes it follows me anyway.
Oh yay it’s nighttime again during the day. I love this
This happened again yesterday. The police took over the lakefront in Hyde Park for hours and hours. Each of these cop SUVs parked egregiously on our busiest bike trail at 4pm had two cops sitting in it.
Eric Allix Rogers@ericallixrogers.com · last mo.Who is being served here, Chicago? And what is being protected?
“Alli, what was it like living in India in 2005?” The inside of my brain:
jesse@jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 2w agoIt has been over two decades since we received Numb/Encore from Jesus and we have yet to achieve those musical heights again
Pradhan resigned. They won. They won!!! Shayyad change aa gaye
Happy to see some other Bollywood answers in the QTs but my answer is always Madhuri in HAHK. Or maybe Madhuri in Dil to Pagal Hai. Or maybe Madhuri in Devdas. But one of those
Dawn@502eire.bsky.social · 2w agothere is a recurring prompt around what’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera and I never have an answer but I’m watching right now and I think it’s gotta be George Clooney in Ocean’s 11
CDBG compliance is about to get way harder
Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING @crisesnotes.bsky.social from @juanhanes.bsky.social and I: HUD is planning to add "special conditions to grant awards” that will require grantees to submit all invoices & individual payment information from themselves, "subrecipients" AND contractors www.crisesnotes.com/breaking-hud...
Wow it’s so beautiful outside I almost forgot what it was like to open up my windows in the morning and air out the house.
India’s Cockroach protests: Rahul Gandhi detained after calling for PM Modi to resign
India’s Cockroach protests: Rahul Gandhi detained after calling for PM Modi to resign
Main opposition leader is bundled into a bus by police during Delhi CJP protests after accusing Narendra Modi of ‘destroying the future of India’s youth’ Indian police have detained opposition leader Rahul Gandhi during spiralling youth-led protests in Delhi, after he called for prime minister Narendra Modi’s resignation. Gandhi, the leader of India’s Congress party, said on Tuesday that Modi must resign “for destroying the future of India’s youth”, before staging a sit-in outside the prime minister’s residence. Continue reading...
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I write about Sonam Wangchuk and his fast, in @foreignpolicy.com India: Why a Hunger Strike Is Rallying Cockroach Protesters share.google/Cb5OfIcvQ9NH...
Why a Hunger Strike Is Rallying India’s Youth
Sonam Wangchuk’s fast in solidarity with Cockroach movement protests joins a long tradition.
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Catching up on the Jantar Mantar protest footage from Delhi and wow, wow wow the youth will not be denied. Modi govt and Delhi police tear gassed them, lathi charged (beat the shit out of them with clubs), turned off the internet, and more. To a peaceful crowd asking for education reform!
